Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern
to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights,
civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive
freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance
reform, the environment
and tax fairness. No political party could
remain so consistently wrong by accident.
The only rational conclusion is
that, despite their cynical "family values" propaganda, the Republican Party
is a criminal conspiracy to betray the interests of the American people
in
favor of oligarchic and corporate interests and absolutist religious groups.

soley on the basis of right-wing ideology, as demonstrated by his unprecedented decision
in Bush v. Gore. It is rumored that Rehnquist will be retiring soon.
We should take comfort in the fact that Bush couldn't possibly appoint
a worse replacement.

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Trent Lott and the
GOP's dirty little secret

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The flap over former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott's idiotic nostalgia
for the era of racial segregation has been quietly removed from public discourse.
The White House's deft management of the coup against the overly candid Lott
has resulted in his replacement as incoming Senate Majority Leader by Ten-
nessee
Senator Bill Frist, whom apparently has the good political sense to never
utter racist sym-
pathies in "polite" company. While Frist may be more
circumspect about his racial policies, his voting record is indistinguishable from Lott's.

Why did the Bush White House (i.e., Karl Rove) feel the
need to replace Lott? It certainly can't be due to policy differences --
Lott
was a loyal foot soldier in George W. Bush's jihad against ordinary
Americans. Like everything else about the Bush administration, policy was driven by politics. Suburban white males and soccer moms (and much later, the press) might conclude that not only was Lott sympathetic to the concept of racial segregation
(if not slavery), but the majority of Republican senators that elected
him their leader must either share his views (which were so often repeated
that nobody could plead ignorance of Lott's sympathies), or were at the very
least "comfortable" with a leader that held those beliefs.

As should
be obvious to anyone with even a casual interest in American politics since Lyndon
Johnson's "Great Society" program, the Republicans have executed a cynical strategy to capture the Southern white "neo-Confederacy" vote while publicly proclaiming
that today's "inclusive" GOP supports
a "color blind" society.

There's
nothing "color blind" about GOP hostility towards civil rights legislation
and the protection of minority voting rights; or their nostalgic affection
for the old Confederacy -- especially as symbolized by their reverence for the
Confederate battle flag. Can anyone who lived through the turbulent era
of civil rights reform in the 50s and 60s deny that the Confederate flag was (and
remains) the standard of racist, white-supremacist opposition to equal rights?

Again,
anyone who doesn't realize that the GOP's long-standing "southern
strategy" is based on racism is either dishonest or hasn't been paying
attention. After Lyndon Johnson signed the historic 1964 Civil Right
Act, he accurately predicted "…We just delivered the South to the Republican
Party for a long time to come." In 1964, Barry Goldwater and the GOP shame-
lessly
capitalized on southern white racism under the canard of "states
rights" (primarily, the states' right
to deny civil liberties based
on race) solidly winning the Deep South -- which it holds to this day.

While
Karl Rove's skillful surgical excision of Trent Lott has removed the
daily media reaffirmation of the connection between the Republican Party and racism,
the racist core of the GOP remains in power, hidden in plain view from daily
media exposure while occupying the highest offices in the nation and manning
the levers of government.

Citations to support this charge are plentiful.
Readers seeking substan-
tiation can click here, here, and here. Most disturbing is that some of the highest officeholders of the American
government whom are in charge of protecting Constitutional liberties and enforcing
civil rights have demonstrably racist pasts.

Consider two prominent Republican officials: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William
Rehnquist, and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

William Rehnquist began his career as a GOP operative by harassing black voters during the 1964
presidential election. He left a lengthy paper trail of his pro-segregation
ideology as an assistant attorney general in the Nixon administration --
attempting to limit and disrupt the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board
of Education. Having thus proved himself "reliable," Rehnquist was appointed
to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon. And reliable he has been
-- so reliable, in fact, that he was appointed chief justice by an admiring Ronald
Reagan (himself no stranger to playing the "Welfare Queen" race card).
Rehnquist's consistent "states rights" judgments (including his grossly inconsistent
vote in Bush v. Gore) on the Supreme Court prove just how predictably
"reliable" he has been. Can this man be trusted to interpret the law fairly?

John
Ashcroft, whose religious practices include anointing himself
with oil (this is a head-scratcher even among our devout Christian friends)
opposed racial integration and the appointment of African Americans to public
office as Missouri attorney general and governor. During this period, Ashcroft maintained links to the segregationist Council of Concerned Citizens (successor to the more overt
White Citizens Councils) -- even intervening in the case of a CCC member accused
of plotting the murder of an FBI agent. Like Trent Lott, Ashcroft has
also made his wistful pro-Confederacy sympathies known in the pages of Southern Partisan. Can this man be trusted with enforcing the nation's civil rights laws?

While his appointment made the GOP's theocratic and segregationist
constituencies happy, what does Ashcroft's selection as the highest law-enforcement
officer in the land say about the ethics of his boss, George W. Bush?

Anyone who ever supported segregation has an ethical
void in the soul where their concepts of fairness and justice should reside
-- and should be considered morally unfit for high office. That goes for Democrats
and Republicans alike. But too many Republicans continue to exploit
racist sympathies for political gain (remember George W. Bush's equivocation on
the Confederate flag and genuflection before Bob Jones III during the 2000 presidential
primaries, and how the GOP used the Confederate flag in the 2002 Georgia
governor's race). Duplicitous Republican racial policies are so long-standing
and pervasive that they cannot be explained
as anything other than
official GOP policy.

Trent Lott's demise wasn't because he held neo-Confederate
sympathies. Unlike John Ashcroft and William Rehnquist, he
committed the unpardonable
sin of enunciating them consistently enough to
disallow the GOP's usual excuses of "misstatement"
or "misinterpretation."